changeset 7960:fb0417c65c64

docs: document official method for beaker cache cleanup
author Mads Kiilerich <mads@kiilerich.com>
date Sat, 16 Nov 2019 20:23:31 +0100
parents 552f6738ace2
children 34c8cb3198d8
files docs/usage/performance.rst
diffstat 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/docs/usage/performance.rst	Wed Nov 20 12:55:14 2019 +0100
+++ b/docs/usage/performance.rst	Sat Nov 16 20:23:31 2019 +0100
@@ -23,6 +23,15 @@
 Tweak beaker cache settings in the ini file. The actual effect of that is
 questionable.
 
+.. note::
+
+    Beaker has no upper bound on cache size and will never drop any caches. For
+    memory cache, the only option is to regularly restart the worker process.
+    For file cache, it must be cleaned manually, as described in the `Beaker
+    documentation <https://beaker.readthedocs.io/en/latest/sessions.html#removing-expired-old-sessions>`_::
+
+        find data/cache -type f -mtime +30 -print -exec rm {} \;
+
 
 Database
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